After last week's episode and the Burning Man Party, we open back up at Ramona’s Southampton Home, in bed with Sonja and Ramona; Sonja is trying to shake Ramona’s elderly dog Coco awake, worried she had died in her sleep. The ladies get ready to head out to North Fork for a long day of drinking, (excluding Leah and Luann).
At the winery(, the beautiful Croteaux Vineyards, I believe), we finally get to see the moment Eboni "confronts" Ramona over her "help" comment that had been teased in the trailer. I've put quotations around "confront" because Eboni explains to Ramona about her issues with the help comment, citing the historic connotation of the word and Eboni’s personal connection, and Ramona owned it, not really any drama there. However, Leah confronts Ramona about lying over donating blood plasma after testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies. And Ramona leaves the table without having her second wine flight to instead have diarrhea in the bathroom. In the context of a Ramona fight, Ramona is retreating. She stumbles over her words enough to all but admit she either didn't donate plasma or was under the impression she had at the time and gave a quote to the press about something she hadn't done. Leah refuses to drop the issue, despite winning this round, and won't let it go. Eboni and Sonja try to calm her down but Leah tries to take it even further by turning it onto the other women for not having her back. Eboni checks her on that. Sonja acting as a hype man for Eboni with Leah and a mediator for Leah and Ramona is the glue that keeps this show going. She takes Ramona aside and let's Ramona vent before returning to the group. Eboni takes the leftover lobster rolls from the table with her from the winery and Sonja has found her twin flame.
The ladies spend the rest of their time shopping. Eboni shares that she got "big tips" and her personality from working at Hooters in her youth. Note to self: look up if Eboni has written a memoir. (She has not. Yet.)
The ladies hit up a bar and Lu scampers off to have a sneaky cigarette. Eboni explains her Irish goodbye from the night before to Ramonja, but it's bumped by producers for the side conversation between Leah and Lu. A recently sober Leah tells a more recently sober Lu that she should not have a mock drink while drinking a mocktail herself. Lu artfully points out the hypocrisy coming from Leah, but Leah clarifies that she's only having a seltzer with grapefruit juice, but Lu is having a faux wine. A faux wine, Luann is developing to sell, I might add. A faux wine that's getting top google searches since its product placement on a reality show watched by almost a million people every week. An increasingly intoxicated Sonja begins rambling about cancel culture, which leads Ramona to ask, “Why would we want to cancel culture?” Ramona is my favorite out of touch queen. Ramona cuts Sonja off for the second time during their outing, as her drunk antics begin to get out of control. With Heather due to arrive the next day, Leah begins stirring the pot, planting the seeds for conflict to come. Leah reads all the comments Heather has made about the other women on podcasts and in the press; including a dig at Sonja’s face lift. (Sonja responds with “I love all my faces.")
Sonja’s aversion to Garth, Luann's new boyfriend, comes to a head at dinner. And her drunk rant about the millions she’s raised for AIDS awareness leaves the table speechless and ashamed. She FaceTimes Dr. William Kapfer, Global Head of Supplier Diversity at JP Morgan and Chase Co., twice, while shouting buzzwords at him in the most awkward dinner ever filmed on TV. Sonja passes the call over to Eboni, who announces she’s taking out a mortgage with Chase Bank because she respects their $30 billion effort to close the wealth gap, which has Sonja react with a drunken double peace sign. Ramona interjects that Wells Fargo has better interest rates and Sonja, naturally, takes this as a cutting betrayal against the good and noble Morgan family name. Sonja and Ramona get heated and into each others face before the episode cuts. We’re teased for next week's episode. I'm excited for all the ladies dressed up like Holly Golightly. Leah takes a vow of silence in what I can only imagine is going to be the most annoying storyline of all time. And of course, we will get the end result of the opposition research Leah has done on Heather.
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